Headstock Pin Necessary?

[ebxx]

Ohh. You mean as long as my tuners are black. Gotcha.

[MikeC]

@sshoihet

which works great as long as your nuts are black.

@ebxx

Ohh. You mean as long as my tuners are black. Gotcha.

Nope. This refers to the color of your bass’s NUT.

Graphite is black (pencil “lead” is graphite). Most bass nuts are white or “white-adjacent” in color.

So, if graphite is used, the string slots of such nuts will look like they’ve been smeared with black, or “dirty.”

Some nuts made of plastic or Tusq can be black. Therefore, graphite applied to their string slots won’t be apparent.

[sshoihet]

@MikeC

So, if graphite is used, the string slots of such nuts will look like they’ve been smeared with black, or “dirty.”

I have spray graphite at work and it’s like painting something with flat black paint

[MikeC]

[Paul]

@sshoihet

into a bit of vaseline which works great as long as your nuts are black.

…we are still talking about bass, right?

[howard]